{"id":283,"date":"2017-04-27T21:47:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/london-greater\/?p=283"},"modified":"2017-04-27T21:47:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:47:46","slug":"international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/london-greater\/2017\/04\/27\/international-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/london-greater\/files\/2017\/04\/09-SILC-IWD-2-768x215.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-265 size-full alignleft\" src=\"\/london-greater\/files\/2017\/04\/09-SILC-IWD-2-768x215.jpg\" alt=\"09-SILC-IWD-2-768x215\" width=\"768\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/london-greater\/files\/2017\/04\/09-SILC-IWD-2-768x215.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/london-greater\/files\/2017\/04\/09-SILC-IWD-2-768x215-300x84.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>On Sat 11 Mar<\/strong> almost 50 women from around our <strong>Soroptimist London Chilterns Region<\/strong> met in London including Members of SI Greater London.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We started the day with a reading about International Women\u2019s Day\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cInternational Women\u2019s Day (March 8) is a global day recognising and appreciating women\u2019s social, economic, cultural and political achievements over the decades. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/london-chilterns\/files\/2017\/03\/iwd_square.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1307\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/london-chilterns\/files\/2017\/03\/iwd_square.gif\" alt=\"iwd_square\" width=\"227\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Woman\u2019s Day was first observed in 1909 in the United States and it is only in 1977 that the United Nations officially declared International Women\u2019s Day celebration on March 8. International Women\u2019s Day (IWD) is a collective day of global celebration and is also an official holiday in several countries like Belarus, Armenia, Albania, Brazil, and Cameroon. No one government, Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), charity, corporation, academic institution, women\u2019s network or media hub is solely responsible for International Women\u2019s Day. Many organisations declare an annual IWD theme that supports their specific agenda or cause, and some of these are adopted more widely with relevance than others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe story of women\u2019s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organisation but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights,\u201d says world-renowned feminist, journalist and social and political activist Gloria Steinem. Thus International Women\u2019s Day is all about unity, celebration, reflection, advocacy and action \u2013 whatever that looks like globally at a local level. But one thing is for sure, International Women\u2019s Day has been occurring for well over a century \u2013 and continues to grow from strength to strength. On this occasion, we should endeavour to build a better world where men and women live harmoniously, free of violence and discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is more about International Women\u2019s Day on these websites:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalwomensday.com\/\">www.internationalwomensday.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/womensday\/\">www.un.org\/en\/events\/womensday\/<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigbi.org\/members\/2017\/international-womens-day\/\">www.sigbi.org\/members\/2017\/international-womens-day\/ <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soroptimistinternational.org\/events\/international-womens-day\/\">www.soroptimistinternational.org\/events\/international-womens-day\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; On Sat 11 Mar almost 50 women from around our Soroptimist London&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>International Women&#039;s Day | News | Blog | Events | SI Greater London<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Greater London : Blog &amp; News : International Women&#039;s Day : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Greater London . 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